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Sorry you posted this so late. I would ask the doc if you could get the
dominant eye done in distant and the non dominant in near. Then you
have
both and don't need glasses for either.
# posted by Blogger Meryl : 1/6/14, 9:42 AM in (CRAP)

I did read that Meryl, and it happened to conform with what I had
myself pondered (I was a US Army optician, so have some
understanding of this stuff). The more I thought about it, the
more I knew it was the right way. When the Ophthalmologist's
office called to confirm surgery time, I asked whether it was possible
at this late date to switch lenses from near sighters (being able to
see things up close), to far
sighters (good distant vision)? She was hesitant, and
copped out with, "ask the Dr if
he has that lens when you show up for the surgery. "

I didn't, but decided I would ask about getting my left eye
fitted for distance. Which is what I did this morning at my post-up
meeting. This is where fate seems to have stepped in—if
having the dominant eye far sighted is of any consequence, as
Blogger Meryl suggested.

I asked him if I could get a far sighted lens in my left eye; he looked
at me quizzically. I said, "Well
here's what I'm thinking. If I have perfect near vision in my
right (dominant) rye, and perfect far sighted in the left, I won't need
glasses since the brain will use the best combo given the circumstances."
He said, "But I gave you a far-sighted O.D. lens."

Looks of panic exchanged betwixt him and assistant.

Wonderful, I
said.

He had in fact misunderstood me, or I him, about my selecting
near-sighted; but how serendipitous was that?

He said, "Well you're right. There
are people who ask for that, but some then hate it."

Why?

Because their
right and left eyes are a tad off register, with bad results.
Then I have to go back and change lenses. [BUT] If
you think that's something you want, let's try it. For the next
three weeks don't wear any glasses. See how you adjust.

Which is what I shall do. My left eye is currently a not bad
20/40, but clouding quickly. A day after surgery my right eye is
20/25, and will improve. If it works, and it already seems to be
working, than I will not require glasses, and people won't call me four-eyed geek! Not that
anyone ever did. That's what we called kids with glasses in grade
school. Then we beat them up. I am so sorry Howard (the Coward).

In his first speech on the Senate floor in the new year, Reid called
for bipartisan cooperation, saying that Republicans had hamstrung
bipartisan efforts.

“We have been able to get a few things done but we have been unable to
get some important things done because the goal by the Republicans in
the congress — not the Republicans in the country, but the Republicans
in the congress — is to do everything they can to make President Obama
look bad,” Reid said.

Why
would Republicans waste effort making him look bad when he's doing such
a swell job of it by his lonesome?

Ever
heard of the False Widow?
Me neither. Most of the articles about it are of Brit origin (like this),
so I thought maybe it was uniquely found there, but no. It was
just
serendipity that led me that example of how easy it s to
introduce
false science into mainstream every day life.